BIOS Setup

We have often come across the situation when the manufacturer would deliberately limit the BIOS functionality of their junior solutions to make the difference between the higher and lower end mainboards more obvious and thus stimulate the demand for more expensive mainboards. They limited the supported value intervals for selected parameters or increased the increments, removed some of the functions altogether. However, the BIOS of our Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD4P doesn’t seem to be any different from the BIOS of Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 or GA-EX58-Extreme. On the contrary, due to TPM module there appeared a new section called “Security Chip Configuration”. That is why we can save some time on detailed commentary and illustrate the BIOS functionality of Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD4P mainboard with screenshots:

Overclockers and fine tuning fans hunting for maximum performance will be pleased to see “MB Intelligent Tweaker (M.I.T.)” to be the first on the list:

In order to show you the complete list of functions offered by this section, we had to combine three screenshots into one. However, all parameters are very well structured, so the section is very easy to work with. Moreover, some parameters have been singled out into individual sub-sections, the first being “Advanced CPU Features”:

“UnCore & QPI Features” sub-section will let you set the frequencies for the corresponding busses:

The next sub-section is called “Advanced Clock Control”. It contains parameters for chipset fine tuning, options for changing the PCI Express bus frequency and “C.I.A.2” management (automatic overclocking function).

You can change the basic memory timings in the main window of “MB Intelligent Tweaker (M.I.T.)”. However, if you need more options for finer tuning of the memory parameters, you can go to a special sub-section called “Advanced DRAM Features”.

Each of the three memory channels is configured separately, although the settings are identical for each of them. We are going to offer you the settings for the first memory channel as an example: